What do I know about Google earth and voice thread? I now that Google earth is a website that shows you all the different places in the world, voice thread is a website that you can make slideshows on and share them with other people, Have I presented material about Google earth and voice thread before? No, I haven’t used these particular two programs before they are a lot different to any programs I have used before, Do I understand what I have to do? Is there anything I don’t understand about this activity? Yes I do understand what I have to do it was quite confusing at times but I got it done eventually, not really but I did need some help sometimes, What skills and knowledge will I be using? My computer skills mostly for this is mainly done on our laptops we also used our knowledge of the country we were doing,
Identify What is the task?
What do I want to accomplish in creating a poster? How do I want to interest others in my topic? Do I want to present an informative poster that can be used as a reference? Do I want to present a warning poster that alerts people to danger? Or some combination of those goals? I want to accomplish making a wonderful presentation that people will be interested in and that I will get a good mark for,
I want to interest people by showing them a good interesting presentation of my places, What do I need in order to do this? What materials do I have? What resources do I need? Should I do more research on Google earth and voice thread? A good interesting poster that people will like,
I have voice thread and Google earth as well as my laptop,
I don’t think so,
Who will be looking at this work? How can I appeal to other students? My classmates and my teacher maybe some other people it’s on share point so anybody in the school could look at it,
I can appeal to others by making my presentation interesting and a good time length.
Are there examples of Google earth and voice thread posters or materials that I can look at? No but that’s ok we have tutorials and teachers helping us,
What are the obstacles? What problems may happen? Our computers/laptops could crash and our work could delete,
The problems that may happen are we could end up not getting it in on time or one of our pairs could be sick,
Can I draw a diagram that will help me to visualise my work? Draw some rough ideas for posters.
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List as many ideas as possible.
What aspects of Google earth and voice thread interest me? What would I want to see on a poster? Google earth interests me because its amazing that you can type in so many different places and they wil be on the Googke earth.
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of each idea.
Are there any other subjects to consider? No I think that the topic I’m doing is good and I don’t really consider changing.
What resources (books, websites, etc.) have I been provided with?
What do other people think about this? Do others think I have a good idea? We have been given tutorials for our presentation and voice thread and google Earth,
I think other people find it fine and that its not easy but that they will be able to do it ,
Yes, I think others think my presentation is quite good ,
Decide Which is the best idea?
Which are the best ideas? Prioritise the 3-5 best ideas.
Explain your reasons for choosing these. What are the arguments for and against each idea? This is all about the poster I’m sorry so I can’t really answer them, Which idea is the best one for completing the task? Which idea is best for accomplishing my goal?
What is my plan? What are the steps to follow?
How will I keep track of my progress? What are my milestones?
Possible list of steps: ·Research and gather material about my subject. ·Revise material and compose text for poster. ·Create graphics. ·Take pictures. Edit pictures. ·Assemble text and images into poster. ·Review poster and modify as needed.
Part Two – Implementing and Evaluating
TASC Process
Questions to consider
Implement Let’s do it!
Am I making progress through the plan? Yes I have finished my presentation successfully and was able to help others, Am I doing this correctly? You may need to review your goal for this activity. Yes I think I did do my presentation correctly but I may have done some bits of it wrong,
Do I need to revise my plan? As you continue, you may discover facts that require changing the plan.
Am I satisfied with the text/graphics/pictures that I have created? I am happy with the pictures I choose for my presentation,
Evaluate How well did I do?
Did I complete the task as originally set out? Did I solve the problem? Yes I did complete the task as I originaly set out to do and it went quite well, Is the text as interesting or informative as intended?
Are the graphics and images appealing?
What have I done?
What have I done really well? Is there anything that stands out as particularly good? I think one thing I did really well was my organisation I made sure that everything was done on time and that I did everything correctly, Is there anything that needs improvement? Should I go back and redo anything? No, I think I did everything well and nothing should be changed,
Am I ready to communicate my ideas or show/display my work to others? Is the poster ready to be shown to others?
Communicate Let’s tell someone!
(You may have answered some of these questions early on during the planning stages.)
Who can I tell? Who is my audience? My class and my teachers mainly but also other people,
What is the best way to present this to my audience? showing the project to my class or to keep it on share point, How do I interest other students in my particular subject? By showing them my project,
Did I include the right text/graphics/images to inform and appeal to other students?
Learn from experience What have I learned?
If I had to start this activity all over again, how would I improve my performance? Would I change my work habits? Would I use a different subject or different design? Would I only make small changes? If I did have to do it again I don’t think there would be much I could do better, How have I improved since that last time I worked on a similar task? I have improved a lot since my other task in organisation and my presentation itself, Have I learned anything about my subject or about appealing to others or about presenting information? Yes I’ve learnt to present my information better and appeal to others more, Can I use that elsewhere? Yes, on other subjects and project it is going to be very useful,
How has my thinking changed as a result of this work? It has changed my idea of what the countries are,
What skills have I learned and developed?
Can these skills be applied to other subjects/activities? I have learned more skills to used on my laptop and now understand more about the subject,
What problems did I have to solve? Were there obstacles in developing ideas, researching material, or presenting the material? How were they overcome? I didn’t find it too hard to come up with ideas it was more hard trying to go through with your ideas,
How did I use the strengths of others to help me? Well seeing as it was a pair project I tried to help Frances and some other pairs,
Part One – Planning
What do I know about this?
I now that Google earth is a website that shows you all the different places in the world, voice thread is a website that you can make slideshows on and share them with other people,
Have I presented material about Google earth and voice thread before?
No, I haven’t used these particular two programs before they are a lot different to any programs I have used before,
Do I understand what I have to do? Is there anything I don’t understand about this activity?
Yes I do understand what I have to do it was quite confusing at times but I got it done eventually, not really but I did need some help sometimes,
What skills and knowledge will I be using?
My computer skills mostly for this is mainly done on our laptops we also used our knowledge of the country we were doing,
What is the task?
I want to accomplish making a wonderful presentation that people will be interested in and that I will get a good mark for,
I want to interest people by showing them a good interesting presentation of my places,
What do I need in order to do this? What materials do I have? What resources do I need? Should I do more research on Google earth and voice thread?
A good interesting poster that people will like,
I have voice thread and Google earth as well as my laptop,
I don’t think so,
Who will be looking at this work? How can I appeal to other students?
My classmates and my teacher maybe some other people it’s on share point so anybody in the school could look at it,
I can appeal to others by making my presentation interesting and a good time length.
Are there examples of Google earth and voice thread posters or materials that I can look at?
No but that’s ok we have tutorials and teachers helping us,
What are the obstacles? What problems may happen?
Our computers/laptops could crash and our work could delete,
The problems that may happen are we could end up not getting it in on time or one of our pairs could be sick,
Can I draw a diagram that will help me to visualise my work? Draw some rough ideas for posters.
What aspects of Google earth and voice thread interest me? What would I want to see on a poster?
Google earth interests me because its amazing that you can type in so many different places and they wil be on the Googke earth.
Consider the advantages and disadvantages of each idea.
Are there any other subjects to consider?
No I think that the topic I’m doing is good and I don’t really consider changing.
What resources (books, websites, etc.) have I been provided with?
What do other people think about this? Do others think I have a good idea?
We have been given tutorials for our presentation and voice thread and google Earth,
I think other people find it fine and that its not easy but that they will be able to do it ,
Yes, I think others think my presentation is quite good ,
Which is the best idea?
Explain your reasons for choosing these. What are the arguments for and against each idea?
This is all about the poster I’m sorry so I can’t really answer them,
Which idea is the best one for completing the task? Which idea is best for accomplishing my goal?
What is my plan? What are the steps to follow?
How will I keep track of my progress? What are my milestones?
Possible list of steps:
· Research and gather material about my subject.
· Revise material and compose text for poster.
· Create graphics.
· Take pictures. Edit pictures.
· Assemble text and images into poster.
· Review poster and modify as needed.
Part Two – Implementing and Evaluating
Let’s do it!
Yes I have finished my presentation successfully and was able to help others,
Am I doing this correctly? You may need to review your goal for this activity.
Yes I think I did do my presentation correctly but I may have done some bits of it wrong,
Do I need to revise my plan? As you continue, you may discover facts that require changing the plan.
Am I satisfied with the text/graphics/pictures that I have created?
I am happy with the pictures I choose for my presentation,
How well did I do?
Yes I did complete the task as I originaly set out to do and it went quite well,
Is the text as interesting or informative as intended?
Are the graphics and images appealing?
What have I done?
What have I done really well? Is there anything that stands out as particularly good?
I think one thing I did really well was my organisation I made sure that everything was done on time and that I did everything correctly,
Is there anything that needs improvement? Should I go back and redo anything?
No, I think I did everything well and nothing should be changed,
Am I ready to communicate my ideas or show/display my work to others? Is the poster ready to be shown to others?
Let’s tell someone!
Who can I tell? Who is my audience?
My class and my teachers mainly but also other people,
What is the best way to present this to my audience?
showing the project to my class or to keep it on share point,
How do I interest other students in my particular subject?
By showing them my project,
Did I include the right text/graphics/images to inform and appeal to other students?
What have I learned?
If I did have to do it again I don’t think there would be much I could do better,
How have I improved since that last time I worked on a similar task?
I have improved a lot since my other task in organisation and my presentation itself,
Have I learned anything about my subject or about appealing to others or about presenting information?
Yes I’ve learnt to present my information better and appeal to others more,
Can I use that elsewhere?
Yes, on other subjects and project it is going to be very useful,
How has my thinking changed as a result of this work?
It has changed my idea of what the countries are,
What skills have I learned and developed?
Can these skills be applied to other subjects/activities?
I have learned more skills to used on my laptop and now understand more about the subject,
What problems did I have to solve? Were there obstacles in developing ideas, researching material, or presenting the material? How were they overcome?
I didn’t find it too hard to come up with ideas it was more hard trying to go through with your ideas,
How did I use the strengths of others to help me?
Well seeing as it was a pair project I tried to help Frances and some other pairs,